7 July

This is Santorini. A famous Greek island, in the Aegean. Doesn’t it look amazing there? Now you’ve seen it and don’t need to go. Right now 3 to 4 massive cruise ships anchor more or less permanently in its harbour to offload thousands of tourists, while belching stinking exhaust gases from the ships into the town’s air. It stinks. You may say, ‘yes but I want to ‘experience’ Santorini!’ I can already tell you what you’ll experience. Thousands of other tourists, choking on the ship exhaust fumes. It’s another place that’s become a theme park, a caricature of itself. That’s what travel does, transforms the world into caricatures. Theme parks.